A recent survey conducted by Harris Interactive and Opinion Matters in the US and UK shows a standard 9 to 5 has ended as employees check email outside of regular business hours, on vacation, weekend, sick days and yes in the bed at home as well. The survey results show 72% of Americans and 62% of Brits check their email on vacation while there’s a huge difference when sick days are concerned with 42% of Americans who check email and 25.8% for Brits. On a male vs female comparison the suvey found that 65% of males and 51% of females check in on email after hours.
In a recession economy with consitent layoffs, employees are feeling more compelled then ever to keep up with work everywhere they are. 27% of Americans and 20% of Brits check their inbox because they feel there’s an expectation of fast responses in their workplace. 37% of Americans report they feel they’ll miss out on an important piece of news or transcation information compared to 45% of Brits who share this sentiment. 5% of Americans and Brits reported feeling the need to impress their boss/colleagues with fast responses, they do so in order to advance their careers and keep their workload manageable.
Here are some interesting results about checking email in bed:
19% of Americans check email before they get out of bed in the morning and get into bed before sleeping;
14% of Brits check email before or after getting into bed;
21% of American men check email in bed compared to 16% of American females;
American adults who check work email outside of regular business hours ages 18-34 are twice as likely to do so than adults ages 35-54–31% compared to just 15%.
Here are some tips for managing the inbox:
Lightning fast email and people search. Xobni automatically creates a profile for every contact in a user’s inbox, helping them to quickly find information and emails exchanged, meetings scheduled, links or documents shared with business and personal contacts.
Integration of relevant third party data, like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Salesforce, in to your Outlook inbox eliminates the need to leave email to find information needed to be most effective.
Emails are threaded so you can see the complete conversation reading multiple emails related to the same topic.
Additionally, here are some tips on managing the inbox when going on vacation:
Sending calendar reminders to their closest contacts reminding them that you will be away
Include an alternate contact in the Out of Office (OOO) message to ensure those emailing get the assistance they need while you are out instead of requiring work from you upon returning from vacation
Set up different OOO messages for people inside your company verses external contacts
State in this message the date of your return so people with important matters know when they can reach you in the office.
Quickly get caught up on the most important matters by doing a Xobni search on key colleagues (boss, direct reports) to see all communication, attachments, links, etc. shared with those people while you were out.
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